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 Post subject: Featherstone
PostPosted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 12:23 pm 
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His take on the game:
All i got from this was, No wonder we are where we are.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbxP10TkAT4


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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
PostPosted: Wed Nov 05, 2025 12:49 pm 
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Hits the nail on the head, Morecambe were the better side for 60 mins or so. Crucially for me "we struggle to hold onto leads at home" - well instead of trying to hold on why not try to increase the lead you f*cking numbskull?
It doesn't take a genius to work out that if you're consistently bad at doing something then you should try something different.
Get a winger in, play 2 up front, set out to win rather than not get beat, all obvious to those of us without coaching badges but hey what do we know?


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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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Funny how in his interview he says that they have a tendency to sit back and try to defend a lead but it's not a deliberate plan and he doesn't know why they do it? You e been at the club 12 years and you know something's wrong but you don't try to fix it, probably because it is actually the plan. Why else are the crowd screaming at the players to get out while the coaches stand there watching and not shouting at them to get out, or leave someone up top for a possible breakaway?
The entire set up is always to have lots of bodies behind the ball, how many breakaways do we get when we actually have more players breaking than defenders?


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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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Can,t argue with any of the above.


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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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What chance has Feathers got? Do we expect him to suddenly find some pace in Johnson? To take the proverbial sow's ear and.......


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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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He could try being a little more adventurous and particularly at home, Johnson as a loan striker against Morecambe ffs! He could stop trying to take us for fools, his assertion that More amber are a better side than their 40 odd goals against stats indicate - really? I haven't got any coaching badges, but we've looked the worst of 2 bad sides in everyone of his 4 games in charge. It really is like going back to LL days where we should be grateful for the odd win and expect nothing when we play the big clubs.
I appreciate that the squad is wafer thin, but imo Fev is not getting the best out of them - dropping Miley is borderline criminal.


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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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Funny how in his interview he says that they have a tendency to sit back and try to defend a lead but it's not a deliberate plan and he doesn't know why they do it? You e been at the club 12 years and you know something's wrong but you don't try to fix it, probably because it is actually the plan. Why else are the crowd screaming at the players to get out while the coaches stand there watching and not shouting at them to get out, or leave someone up top for a possible breakaway?
The entire set up is always to have lots of bodies behind the ball, how many breakaways do we get when we actually have more players breaking than defenders?


The coaches stand there watching because they're probably not allowed to single someone out for individual criticism, due to advanced wokery rules you have to catch them on their own a few days later and whisper it quietly in their ear with their agent taking notes in the background standing ready with a box of tissues and smelling salts incase they faint. As long as they're all doing 12000 steps in 90 mins that's okay.

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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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The club is like a sleep walker, moving along, but God knows how…..and eventually all sleepwalkers are going to topple…… it’s just a matter of time.

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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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PTID wrote:
Funny how in his interview he says that they have a tendency to sit back and try to defend a lead but it's not a deliberate plan and he doesn't know why they do it? You e been at the club 12 years and you know something's wrong but you don't try to fix it, probably because it is actually the plan. Why else are the crowd screaming at the players to get out while the coaches stand there watching and not shouting at them to get out, or leave someone up top for a possible breakaway?
The entire set up is always to have lots of bodies behind the ball, how many breakaways do we get when we actually have more players breaking than defenders?

unless we pass sideways or backwards we cannot find players in a pools shirt when going forwards. tuesday was a great example of the lack of quality passing in this league.


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That through pass and run by Reid late in the game is a talent that's sadly lacking in our squad, they're like hen's teeth. We'd much rather potter around the opponents box with sideways passes till the other team gets bored and takes it off us or we give the ball away.

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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:
That through pass and run by Reid late in the game is a talent that's sadly lacking in our squad, they're like hen's teeth. We'd much rather potter around the opponents box with sideways passes till the other team gets bored and takes it off us or we give the ball away.

creating good goalscoring chances and half chances are also like hens teeth with us. even a poor morecambe side created more than we did. Oh for the good old days of manny d scoring one of the five opportunities he got in games. now they get one and if they miss they,ll be lucky to get a second chance.


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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:
That through pass and run by Reid late in the game is a talent that's sadly lacking in our squad, they're like hen's teeth. We'd much rather potter around the opponents box with sideways passes till the other team gets bored and takes it off us or we give the ball away.


It's Campbell's through pass. The bloke is marmite for fans and managers. Grayson wouldn't even have him on the bench but he has justified Feaths bringing him back into the team and ditching the useless Walker.

Annoying that there doesn't seem to be anybody in the squad who can take a decent corner though - or anyone to get his nut on one. We must have had 8 on the night and all there was to show for it was a header ballooned over the bar by Parkes.


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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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Flying Hogans wrote:
paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:
That through pass and run by Reid late in the game is a talent that's sadly lacking in our squad, they're like hen's teeth. We'd much rather potter around the opponents box with sideways passes till the other team gets bored and takes it off us or we give the ball away.


It's Campbell's through pass. The bloke is marmite for fans and managers. Grayson wouldn't even have him on the bench but he has justified Feaths bringing him back into the team and ditching the useless Walker.

Annoying that there doesn't seem to be anybody in the squad who can take a decent corner though - or anyone to get his nut on one. We must have had 8 on the night and all there was to show for it was a header ballooned over the bar by Parkes.


The corners are just aimless floaters.


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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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Grayhoundend wrote:
Flying Hogans wrote:
paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:
That through pass and run by Reid late in the game is a talent that's sadly lacking in our squad, they're like hen's teeth. We'd much rather potter around the opponents box with sideways passes till the other team gets bored and takes it off us or we give the ball away.


It's Campbell's through pass. The bloke is marmite for fans and managers. Grayson wouldn't even have him on the bench but he has justified Feaths bringing him back into the team and ditching the useless Walker.

Annoying that there doesn't seem to be anybody in the squad who can take a decent corner though - or anyone to get his nut on one. We must have had 8 on the night and all there was to show for it was a header ballooned over the bar by Parkes.


The corners are just aimless floaters.


There is nothing worse than a floater :obscene-tolietcrapper:

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Bluestreak wrote:
Grayhoundend wrote:
Flying Hogans wrote:
paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:
That through pass and run by Reid late in the game is a talent that's sadly lacking in our squad, they're like hen's teeth. We'd much rather potter around the opponents box with sideways passes till the other team gets bored and takes it off us or we give the ball away.


It's Campbell's through pass. The bloke is marmite for fans and managers. Grayson wouldn't even have him on the bench but he has justified Feaths bringing him back into the team and ditching the useless Walker.

Annoying that there doesn't seem to be anybody in the squad who can take a decent corner though - or anyone to get his nut on one. We must have had 8 on the night and all there was to show for it was a header ballooned over the bar by Parkes.


The corners are just aimless floaters.


There is nothing worse than a floater :obscene-tolietcrapper:


:lol: :lol: :lol:


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Tactic’s consist of boring the opposition to tears…that’s it.

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 Post subject: Re: Featherstone
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Snowy wrote:
Tactic’s consist of boring the opposition to tears…that’s it.


Well its certainly worked on me, Well done Fevs.


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Bluestreak wrote:
Grayhoundend wrote:
Flying Hogans wrote:
paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:
That through pass and run by Reid late in the game is a talent that's sadly lacking in our squad, they're like hen's teeth. We'd much rather potter around the opponents box with sideways passes till the other team gets bored and takes it off us or we give the ball away.


It's Campbell's through pass. The bloke is marmite for fans and managers. Grayson wouldn't even have him on the bench but he has justified Feaths bringing him back into the team and ditching the useless Walker.

Annoying that there doesn't seem to be anybody in the squad who can take a decent corner though - or anyone to get his nut on one. We must have had 8 on the night and all there was to show for it was a header ballooned over the bar by Parkes.


The corners are just aimless floaters.


There is nothing worse than a floater :obscene-tolietcrapper:


Discovering a 'nightwatchman' (somebody else's stubborn unflushed) is far worse! :naughty: :shock:


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Kettering Poolie wrote:
:scared-eek: :scared-eek:
Bluestreak wrote:
Grayhoundend wrote:
Flying Hogans wrote:
paulus the woodgnome and a side salad wrote:
That through pass and run by Reid late in the game is a talent that's sadly lacking in our squad, they're like hen's teeth. We'd much rather potter around the opponents box with sideways passes till the other team gets bored and takes it off us or we give the ball away.


It's Campbell's through pass. The bloke is marmite for fans and managers. Grayson wouldn't even have him on the bench but he has justified Feaths bringing him back into the team and ditching the useless Walker.

Annoying that there doesn't seem to be anybody in the squad who can take a decent corner though - or anyone to get his nut on one. We must have had 8 on the night and all there was to show for it was a header ballooned over the bar by Parkes.


The corners are just aimless floaters.


There is nothing worse than a floater :obscene-tolietcrapper:


Discovering a 'nightwatchman' (somebody else's stubborn unflushed) is far worse! :naughty: :shock:

'nightwatchman'...........great description :lol:

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